Recorded this afternoon, two organ pieces that could hardly be more different. The manualiter fantasy by English composer John Bull, on a fugue by Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, is stark and forbidding, dating from the Tudor period, while the chorale by Bach is light and playful, most of the work being done by the left hand and feet.

Thanks Andreas. There would be nitpicks here, be it small ones. The Quint manual coupling, which I usually like, doesn't sound good here in the Bull piece, and the runs, though executed very clearly and detached, are blurred by the reverb. In the Bach, the pedaling is noisy and the LH passage work is not optimally clear in places. There's even some wrong notes, although they don't sound wrong, I just have a habit there of playing something else than written. This was actually an extremely hard piece for me to get into. Playing with LH and feet only is a weird experience and takes long to get used to.

So you are the best teacher of your own. It´s very good and important to have the capability of self-analysis respective -critique like you demonstrate above.Is that piece really only for LH and pedal or does it contain just the most notes in LH and pedal?(Hold your thumbs for my performance of excerpts of Matthew-Passion on friday.)

Is that piece really only for LH and pedal or does it contain just the most notes in LH and pedal?

Mostly. The RH only comes in at regular intervals with a short strophe of the chorale melody. This is quite common in chorales, but the difference here is extreme. Both the pedal and LH parts are very difficult (at least for me).

Hi Chris,I enjoyed the Bach work very much -- it's hard not to like Bach -- and I feel you did a fine job with it. The Bull was a bit boring to me given the incessant repetion of the ascending line, which, I suppose, must have been the Sweelinck fugue subject, but find nothing to critique in the performance. (I Know next-to-nothing of organ playing. I know there's a gas pedal down there somewhere for volume.)

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